Show u a 9 UIT Es MIC 4 fi 5 1 I th the little Ws aw every aber het by tho 52 pr dr manfredi has been announcing il tome some disquieting facts facts concerning the 0 omnipresence p cresence I 1 of fadal microbes mic robes in the busy bu sy thoroughfare haare of a crowded crow ded city he has found microbes mic robes to a k gram 0 of dust vust and ana in the dirtiest streets per gram A large lar e number of disease producing microbes mic robes were found among these the number of such germs being directly proportional to thet he aggregate number of microbes mic nic robes of 01 forty two cases in which ite he inoculated guinea pigs with neapolitan dust he be detected the tubercle bacilli the germ of consumption in three the bacillus of pus in eight the bacillus of I 1 tetanus in two the bacillus of malignant cadema oedema in four and other fatal bacilli A amedi medi cal paper suggests that the streets street U of american cities should be tested for microbes mic robes es and is confident that in maici many of them a harvi harrest it as rich in variety yand aud deadliness as was as garner garnered ad i in N naples les could easily be secured emphasis is given to dr manfredis alarming statistics by the results of some i investigations a which have been carried carriea on by prof pro f Telman Ul with respect to fo the carrying of cholera bacilli by menniti means of letters postal cards etc he infected a letter with the bacilli and put it in the ordinary way into i a pouf post bagin the course of twenty four ho hours urs the letter was taken tal en out and the bacilli were still living they were also found still living on postal cards twenty hours after infection but on coins they seemed to die with great rapidity the reason for this difference could not be discovered on woolen and linen stuffs the bacilli enjoyed a particularly I 1 y long life the busiest and kostef i fictive infection carrier was found fou nd to 1 be b the common fly A fly which had been infected by being pu put 01 ol onto ta a mass massa of cholera bacilli was placed on a piece of beef when the beef was examined soon after it contained an enormous quantity of living bacteria prof deduces from his experiments peri ments the ott oft caught lesson that in time of most scrupulous c cleanliness lean liness isahc best safeguard 1 I 1 I 1 |